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Afghanistan – Men Throw Acid into Girls’ Faces “for Going to School”
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From Website Video on Women
Disfigured by Acid Attacks
By Masoud Popalzai, CNN – July 5, 2015
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) - Attackers on a
motorbike threw acid in the faces of three teenage girls on their way to school
in Afghanistan's western Herat province on Saturday, an official told CNN.
The
girls, age 16 to 18, are students at one of the biggest girls' schools in Herat
city, the provincial capital, said Aziz-ul-Rahman Sarwary, head of the
education department for the province.
All
three girls were admitted to Noor hospital in Herat city before their parents
took them elsewhere, said Hospital Head Jamal Abdul Naser Akhundzada.
Two
of the girls were in critical condition after the acid was thrown in their
faces, he said.
Akhundzada
quoted the girls as saying that their assailants were two men on a motorbike.
"This is the punishment for going to school," the men
told the girls after pouring the acid on them, according to Hospital Head
Akhundzada.
Abdul
Rauf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial police chief, said police were
working very hard to find the attackers.